Battlestar Galactica

[settiai]

So I pretty much gave up watching Battlestar Galactica sometime around mid-S3. I've been spoiled for most of the big revelations (the identities of the final Cylons, major character deaths, etc.), but nothing's really caught my attention enough to make me want to watch the show anymore. It turned into too much of a soap opera for my tastes. Which

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[settiai]

. . . okay, so I'm still not feeling any urge to hurry when it comes to actually watching the last season-and-a-half of this show.

[settiai]

Yeah, I had some problems with that aspect of Battlestar Galactica as well.

[settiai]

So basically, the Galactica crew are the aliens that came and taught the ancients all they knew.

Huh. That's kind of how I expected the series to end, but... I didn't actually think that's how it would end. If that makes any sense.

[settiai]

My main problem with the series is that it just got so dark. I don't mind my shows being somewhat dark and depressing, but I like to have at least a little humor/lightheartedness mixed in.

[lozenger8]

It turned into too much of a soap opera for my tastes.

YES! I grew to hate the show, so I stopped watching at the same time as you - maybe just a bit before? I got to episode 8, season 3, and couldn't handle the soap opera along with the complete lack of humour anymore. I got sick of the fact everyone was a cylon.

I don't usually give up on shows. In fact, I never did. But I gave up on BsG, and sometimes I wonder if I missed out.

[settiai]

I've never been the type to give up on shows before, but I've quit on both Battlestar Galactica and Lost. The plots on both just became so much of a never-ending soap opera that I couldn't bear them anymore.

[lozenger8]

I never really got into Lost, so I don't consider that 'giving up'. I never really gave it a chance.

By the sound of the finale, I don't think I did miss anything with BsG --- it evolved into something that's not my thing. Which is a shame, because I loved the mini-series and most of the first series so very much.

[settiai]

*nods*

My big problem with Battlestar Galactica is that it just got so dark by the end. I don't mind a little darkness and angst, but I have to have at least some humor/lightheartedness mixed in or I can't handle it.

[livii]

I hugely appreciate this post, because I would like to have some clue of what everyone's talking about, and to be able to chat with a coworker on Monday. But I've never watched BSG so I wasn't going to be able to figure this out on my own, or anything. ;)

Edit: So basically, the Galactica crew are the aliens that came and taught the ancients all they knew

Damnit, that plotline always pisses me off. I hate when they do it in DW as well. I like to think our long-ago ancestors figured things out on their own, without outside influence...

[settiai]

*grin*

I'll admit, I adored the first season or two of the show. But then it went completely dark, and the plots started getting more and more convoluted without anything major being revealed or resolved. And that's really not to my taste, so...

[livii]

It never sounded to my taste, so I shouldn't judge, but last year palmetto spent twenty minutes trying to explain the show to me on AIM and at the end I said "...so, there are like, multiple copies of some of the characters?" It was hopeless. I gave up completely, but still like to be in the fannish zeitgeist from time-to-time. ;)

[settiai]

"...so, there are like, multiple copies of some of the characters?"

Like I said, extremely convoluted at points.

but still like to be in the fannish zeitgeist from time-to-time.

Oh, trust me, I understand. ;-)

[strangevisitor7]

I stopped watching to but hubby didn't and he kept me updated. I watched the finale - most of it on fast forward. I think it was a cop out to make Kara an angel and the six and balter who lived in the minds of six and balter - does that make sense- angels too.

but i will give them credit they wrapped up all the thread and short of killing everyone in a big battle the only way to end it was for them to find a good planet to start over on.

Still trying to figure out why they had these weird flashbacks to life on caprica before the war - waste of time it you ask me.

and badger was back - so always good to see Mark sheppard. LOL

[settiai]

does that make sense

I'm assuming you mean Head!Six and Head!Baltar? (That's what I've always seen people call them, at least.)

[strangevisitor7]

yes! i didn't know they were called that.

[galfridian]

Head!Six has ALWAYS claimed she's an angel.

She wasn't lying.